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It’s All Greek To Me: The Greek Letter Υ
I’m sitting in the Chania Airport for what should be a short hop to Athens, but for some reason – perhaps the Saharan sand in the air combined with rain – our plane is not here, and one flight tracker … Continue reading
Lessons from the Great War: The Will to Fight
This is my fourth post on Lessons from the Great War. The first raised four questions. The second addressed one of the questions – why did the war end? The answer was that the Allies on the Western Front had … Continue reading
“The Issue Before Us Is Death” – The Rev’d Chris Hedges
In addition to giving the John Albert Hall lecture at the University of Victoria this past month, the journalist Chris Hedges, preached at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia, on January 20, 2019. I am told that some … Continue reading
Nunc Dimittis: Beyond “Lord, Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant Depart In Peace”
A Sermon preached on the Feast of The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (commonly called Candlemas) at St. Thomas, Kefalas, 11:00 am Feb 3, 2018 (transferred from Feb 2). Perhaps the most beautiful setting among many beautiful setting … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann the Prophet, Evening Prayer, Evensong, Feast of the Presentation, Nunc Dimittis, Song of Simeon
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Christian Fascism in the USA: Chris Hedges and Authentic Christianity
The good does draw to the good. – Chris Hedges Chris Hedges is an award-winning American journalist who this past January gave the John Albert Hall lecture at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The organizers underestimated … Continue reading
It’s All Greek to Me: Nikos Kazantzakis & His Novel “Captain Michalis”
When Nikos Kazantzakis was a young boy he would have watched his father and his father’s friends fight in the Cretan rebellions against the Ottoman Turks, who then ruled Crete. As a teenager and a young adult, after Crete became … Continue reading
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It’s All Greek To Me: Homeric Questions (Part Two)
In the summer of 1933, and then for a fifteen month period in 1934-1935, Milman Parry went to the southern part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Born in 1902 in California, Parry was an associate professor at Harvard University, with … Continue reading
It’s All Greek To Me: Homeric Questions (Part One)
Towering over all Greek culture past and present are two ancient epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957), the great Greek demotic writer, wrote a sequel to The Odyssey (it was not well received). Constatine Cavafy (1863-1933), … Continue reading
It’s All Greek To Me: Modern Greek
When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, Byzantine Greek did not cease to exist, even though it was no longer the tongue of an empire. It continued on as the form of used in the Greek-speaking part of the Eastern … Continue reading
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Tagged Demotic Greek, Greek, Katharevousa, Modern Greek, Monotonic accents, Standard Modern Greek
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